Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 01:50 pm
During his speech on democratic socialism, Sen. Bernie Sanders departed from his prepared remarks and leveled Donald Trump for his racist rhetoric and tactics.
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Sen. Sanders said:
I despise appeals to nativism and prejudice, a lot of which we have been hearing in recent months. And I do proudly believe in immigration reform that gives Hispanics and others a pathway to citizenship and a better life.
And while I am on that subject let me just say a real word of concern to what I have been hearing from some of the Republican candidates in recent months. People can have honest disagreements about immigration or about anything else. That’s called democracy, but people should not be using the political process to inject racism into the debate. And if Donald Trump and others who refer to Latinos as criminals and rapists. If they want to open that door, our job is to shut that door, and shut it tight. This country has gone too far. Too many people have suffered, and too many people have died for us to continue hearing racist words coming from major political candidates.
Sanders didn’t just destroy Trump and the entire racist subtext that many of the Republican presidential candidates are running on. He called on the American people to shut the racists down.
Sen. Sanders was correct. We have a moral obligation to shut people like Donald Trump, who are trying to exploit some of the deepest wounds in society for political gain completely down. The reason the media should report on Trump’s remarks with a more critical eye is because he is damaging the country.
The Democratic candidate’s remarks about Trump were not in his prepared text. Sanders took a detour to express how strongly he feels about the damage that the Republican frontrunner is doing to our country.
Trump is so afraid of Sanders that he is trying to get voters to believe that he is a communist. The reality is that Sanders is speaking a truth that Trump doesn’t want voters to hear.
Donald Trump’s empty bluster about communism can’t match up the truth that Bernie Sanders is dropping on the billionaire.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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